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Members of a farmer family busy sowing paddy saplings.

The woman comes to the watch-hut at night and get back to home early morning.She is the owner of the fish cultivation area.She is getting back to her home from the watch-hut.This is her dusk to dawn r

The little boy, ready with his load of hay on his head, waiting for his mother to take up her share of load and to go home before sundown.

Ruined Tomb By The Nature

Women workers of a Bengal brick field about to start a working session.

As we waited for the steam train atop a hill at Glenfinnin, we were rewarded with this magnificent view of Loch Shiel in the Scotish Highlands

My husband I saw this castle as we headed north from Oban toward Fort William, Scotland.

My husband I found this fairytale castle in Inverary, Scotland,located on the shores of Loch Fyne.

Winter trees seen through a metal sculptural piece. A sphere composed of over a 1000 steel cones.

View of the City of Melk, Austria from the Melk Abbey

Mt Vernon sculpture garden photo taken through a sphere composed of over 1000 stainless steel cones

On an overnight stay in Oban, Scotland, we saw this fabulously long sunset lasting well past 11pm

Son and Daughter-in-law, let me get a real close-up

Driving north to Scotland, my husband and I saw this pastoral scene in northwest England

Lioness with a tracking collar, Botswana, Africa

Treebeard, this tree could be one in J.R.R, Tolkien's Fangorn Forest

Anasazi Indian dwelling, Blanding Utah

They work in shops or unload trucks at the market at night. They only get time to sleep at early morning. This one has taken in Kawran Bazar, the largest food market of Dhaka on 2 June 2011.

`Heal the World'
Let's Heal the World, the world needs us. We cannot let the world down. We should be saying `Yes' to green, say `Yes' to love, say `No' to war, say `No' to pollution, say `No' to gr

A visit to Doune Castle, Scotland, UK just after a spring rain.

The World In Your Hands
Shot in Flushing Meadows Corona Park/Queens on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012, during my one week trip to NYC from May 28th till June 4th, some hours before we went to the basebal

A reclining pushcart puller.This photograph has taken in Kamalapur Railway Station, central railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 17 August 2012.

Angel in flight

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

On an overnight stay in Oban, Scotland, we saw this fabulously long sunset lasting well past 11pm

On an overnight stay in Oban, Scotland, we saw this fabulously long sunset lasting well past 11pm

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© Jerrie Bates.
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